>>The true electronic record begins with 1998, when I finally started an affordable web connection at home, and had a box of my own - still owned by the office, but then I owned 40% of that, so I now have gigabytes of emails in a continuous line since then, and lots of various documents. The true continuity began in june 2000, when I finally bought a digital camera. Mind you, I had thousands of photos from before, but I didn't even preserve all the negatives; I'd guess I found about 80% of them. And reshot them digitally, so now I have photos since I was born, all in this PC (plus partial copy of archives at childrens' disks), but even there, the eighties and the nineties are quite thin. Mostly for economical reasons, the family grew faster than the income... so I didn't think of finding time to write things down, and also didn't find it important enough to make more photos.
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>Good luck with the diary.

It's a full autobiography and probably too long for anyone to read. If I ever decide it's complete enough to be publishable (it'll never be finished, it's software), it will be something between a timeline and a wiki-like website. All the text is heavily interlinked, and of course, all the names are obfuscated, even mine.